TACS Overview¶
The Toolkit for the Analysis of Composite Structures (TACS) is a parallel finite-element code for analysis and gradient-based design of advanced structures. Originally, TACS was primarily designed as a tool for the analysis of shell structures, such as wing-boxes. More recently it has been extended to perform topology optimization of large three-dimensional structures using gradient-based methods.
TACS has been under continuous development since 2010 by the Structural and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization group at Georgia Tech and by the Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Lab at the University of Michigan.